The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

Its bright. steady light has been pronounced .
great Improvement over electricity.
Minnesota capitalists considering the con-
struction OF a new railroad to the Pacific coast.
In Kentucky nearly $40, 600. 900 is being
pended upon new railroads originating IN Louis
Vile.
Immense coal-felds, forty five miles above
Bismarck, Dakota, are to be developed next
spring.
East Chicago is to be built up with extensive
car manufactures, steel plants and slsughtering
establishments
A great deal of small house building has been
done this year and will be done next year in all
OF the Western States.
1t is feared that a beef panic and high prices
will result from the reckless sales that ranchmen
are making In order to meet their debts.
mill out ir Michigan is making fancy cassi-
meres. New England cannot monopolize the
textile business. Other textile mills are pro-
jected in Michigan.
A strong movement is being made by invent
ors to bring about patent reform. aud bill
has been prepared to ask for the establishment
of a commission to revise all patent laws Of the
United States,
Lumber demands good price on account of
the enlarging demand. great deaf of tbs COM
ing from the South. Stocks not large even
IN primary markets, but very heavy winters
cut will be made.
shortens the distance between the Ohio river
and Charleston by fifty miles. and it is proposed
TO shin imports from the West Indies and South
America into the Northwest by that line.
As the greater part of the new railway con-
struction in the West is owned by the older and
powerful companies. it is probable they will be
able to carry their new burdens without col
lapse until the new country shall develop suth-
GENTLY to yield a paying traffic.
The end of the cotton picking season in the
South has made all kinds of common labor
plentiful. and employers can have 1t at almost
their own price. Northern laborers who go
down there find themselves in hard lines in COM
petition with cotton picking labor.
The demand for all kinds of skilled and un-
skilled labor in all parts of the United States
still continues and the prospects are that 1t will
continue. especially throuehout the Northern
States. as long the weather shall permit the
prosecution of outside undertakings. The iron
and steel-workers have the busiest winters work
ahead of them they have ever had. although two
railmiils have shut down within a few days. On
the other hand, new rolling-mils, pipe mills.
steel-works and blast furnaces coming in, to
say nothing or the long list of smaller iron and
steel consuming establishments The boot and
shoe work men will have buster winter than
some fifteen or twenty shops
either nnder construction or projected. The
weavers and spinners will be working ten TO
eleven hours per Gay right straight through the
winter. and will turn out not less than 10 per
cent. more goods than were turned out last
winter. The upward tendency in several lines
or dry goods has encouraged manufacturers,
who for the past two months have been creep
ing along slowly. The papermakers through
out the country have been slackening up little,
trying to keep supply and demand about equal
SO that they get little moro money, but
book paper has been hammered down and is
still low. A good many implement-works in
the West have suddenly come TO a short turn.
Several stove foundries running about
three-fourths time. Both of these branches ex-
pect orders before the holidays sufficient to
drive them ifty-five hours a week through the
winter. The cigar makers, especially through
out the East. busy. and yhs relations be-
tween them and their employers arc more
friendly than ever before. The building trades
have had a remarkable year. There has been
no time at which builders could not obtain more
than they had, and workmen have
been all times able to find employment
There is a great deal of work yet TO be done,
both outside and inside, and painters. decor
ators, plum hers, cabinet makers and workmen
engaged In fitting up electrical appliances have
the assurance OF their employers that there will
be idle time this winter especially in the
larger cities.